I received my copy of Snow Leopard today from Apple. They overnighted it and fedex was kind enough to call and tell me they tried to deliver it but was unable to. I stopped by the Fedex depot on the way home and picked it up. I decided to load it on the Laptop first because I have heard of some problems with Adobe Photoshop Elements (which I run on the Mac Pro desktop).
So what are my thoughts:
1. I think Apple shipped some faulty DVD’s. Everytime I put it in my MacBook Pro, it would try to read it and then it would eject it. I put it in the MacPro desktop and it came right up. So back to the MBP and it continued to just eject it. I then attached an LG External USB DVD drive, and it seemed to have some problems reading it on there. I then did the Apple Software update (there were a couple of Security alerts available) thinking that may help. Didn’t appear to. Then all of the sudden it loaded the installer. After an hour later and 2 reboots Snow Leopard was installed via the USB drive. They still need to work on their installer, it set at the “Time Remaining : Less than a minute” for over 10 minutes.
2. The initial startup seemed to take some time, but have not tried rebooting it yet.
3. The Finder seems extremely faster.
4. It free’d up almost 10 gig of disk space for me. I started the install with only 17gb free. After the install I now have 27.11 gb free.
So far I havn’t tried any of the other apps I use, but Adium X 1.4b9 seems to run well. I also like the new Expose, seems to organize stuff a little better. Will have to see what else has changed.